ICOTS-7 Proceedings: Editors’ Preface
Editors’ Preface Allan Rossman and Beth Chance California Polytechnic State University, United States
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[email protected] Editing these Proceedings has been a great privilege for us. We have been impressed with the quality and variety of the papers and posters submitted for ICOTS-7. We have also been struck by the dedication, expertise, and professionalism of hundreds of volunteers who have contributed to this enterprise. Indeed, the process of assembling this volume has embodied the conference theme: working cooperatively in statistics education. We have enjoyed working with our fellow members of the International Program Committee, with the conveners and organizers of the conference topics and sessions, with the authors of the papers themselves, and with the referees who reviewed papers. These statistics educators represent more than 60 countries from all parts of the world, and from a variety of academic backgrounds and interests. All have worked together because of a shared commitment to improving the teaching and learning of statistics, both around the world and in each one’s small corner of it. We hope that the roughly 400 papers and poster abstracts contained in these Proceedings will prove helpful toward achieving this goal, not only for those attending the conference but also for statistics teachers and education researchers who are unable to make it to Salvador.
Refereeing process An optional refereeing process for ICOTS Proceedings was instituted with ICOTS-6, and we have continued and expanded the process with ICOTS-7. The goals of this refereeing are to improve the quality of the papers and to provide recognition to those papers that satisfy the standard of peer review. A total of 139 papers were submitted to this process and reviewed by three or four peers each, of which 78% were designated as having satisfied the peer-review process. These papers are identified as “refereed” in the header of the pdf file.
Acknowledgements We thank the 141 referees who graciously volunteered their time and expertise to this task. Most of them refereed three papers, and several refereed more than that, often on very short notice. We also thank Brian Phillips, Editor of the Proceedings of ICOTS-6, for sharing helpful advice, and John Shanks, Web Master of ICOTS-7, for devising an automated system to manage the refereeing process and for invaluable support throughout this editing process. We also thank several people who helped with preparing the pdf files of the papers: Emily Anderson, Donna Chance, Frank Chance, Jenna Maskell, Mary Mortlock, and Eileen Rossman.
ICOTS-7 Proceedings: Referees
Acknowledgement of ICOTS-7 Referees Dor Abrahamson ~ University of California, Berkeley, United States Jim Albert ~ Bowling Green State University, United States Arthur Bakker ~ University of London, United Kingdom Patricia Balderas ~ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico Giovanni A. Barbieri ~ Istat (National Statistical Institute), Italy Lúcia Pereira Barroso ~ Instituto de Matemática e Estatística - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Gabriella Belli ~ Virginia Tech, United States Dani Ben-Zvi ~ University of Haifa, Israel María Teresa Blaconá ~ Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina Andrej Blejec ~ National Institute of Biology, Slovenia Nancy J. Boynton ~ SUNY Fredonia, United States Lea Bregar ~ University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Nick Broers ~ Maastricht University, The Netherlands Floyd Bullard ~ North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, United States Tim Burgess ~ Massey University, New Zealand Rosemary Callingham ~ University of New England, Australia Matt Carlton ~ California Polytechnic State University, United States Rodney Carr ~ Deakin University, Australia Irene Mauricio Cazorla ~ Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz - UESC, Brazil Margarida César ~ Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Jean-Hugues Chauchat ~ Université Lumière Lyon2, France Julie M. Clark ~ Hollins University, United States Patti B. Collings ~ Brigham Young University, United States Linda Brant Collins ~ University of Chicago, United States Doreen Connor ~ Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom Cileda de Queiroz e Silva Coutinho ~ Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil Corrado Crocetta ~ University of Foggia, Italy Geoff Cumming ~ La Trobe University, Australia Brenton Dansie ~ University of South Australia, Australia Neville Davies ~ Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education, United Kingdom Gretchen Davis ~ UCLA, United States Robert delMas ~ University of Minnesota, United States Carmen Díaz ~ University of Granada, Spain E. Jacquelin Dietz ~ Meredith College, United States Jimmy A. Doi ~ California Polytechnic State University, United States Mark A. Earley ~ Bowling Green State University, United States Andreas Eichler ~ Universität Bielefeld, Germany Noel Enyedi ~ UCLA, United States Antonio Estepa-Castro ~ University of Jaén, Spain Fiona Fidler ~ La Trobe University (Bundoora), Australia William Finzer ~ KCP Technologies, United States Peter Flanagan-Hyde ~ Phoenix Country Day School, United States Glenda Francis ~ Swinburne University of Technology, Australia J.S. Galpin ~ University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Linda Gattuso ~ Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Rob Gould ~ UCLA, United States Mary W. Gray ~ American University, United States Marcia Gumpertz ~ North Carolina State University, United States James K. L. Hammerman ~ TERC, United States Johanna Hardin ~ Pomona College, United States William Harkness ~ Penn State University, United States Lisa L. Harlow ~ University of Rhode Island, United States William V. Harper ~ Otterbein College, United States Brad Hartlaub ~ Kenyon College, United States Robert W. Hayden ~ statistics.com, United States Michel Henry ~ Université de Franche-Comté, France Oscar Hernández ~ University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica Sterling C. Hilton ~ Brigham Young University, United States Lynn Hodge ~ University of Alabama, United States P.K. Ito ~ NaNew Zealandan University, Japan Brian Jersky ~ Sonoma State University, United States Flavia Jolliffe ~ University of Kent, United Kingdom Li Jun ~ East China Normal University, China Gary Kader ~ Appalachian State University, United States Sonia Kafoussi ~ University of the Aegean, Greece
ICOTS-7 Proceedings: Referees
Sibel Kazak ~ Washington University in St. Louis, United States John Kern II ~ Duquesne University, United States Petter Laake ~ University of Oslo, Norway David Lane ~ Rice University, United States Cynthia Langrall ~ Illinois State University, United States Carl Lee ~ Central Michigan University, United States Lawrence Lesser ~ University of Texas at El Paso, United States Kay Lipson ~ Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Robin Lock ~ St. Lawrence University, United States Cynthia Long ~ Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research, United States María Virginia López ~ Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Juan Manuel López-Zafra ~ Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain Maria Lúcia Lorenzetti Wodewotzki ~ State University of São Paulo, Brazil Marsha Lovett ~ Carnegie Mellon University, United States Dione Lucchesi de Carvalho ~ Universidade Estadual de Campinas - FE/Unicamp, Brazil Ulric Lund ~ California Polytechnic State University, United States Helen MacGillivray ~ Queensland University of Technology, Australia Katie Makar ~ University of Queensland, Australia Peter Martin ~ University of Ballarat, Australia John D. McKenzie Jr. ~ Babson College, United States Maria Meletiou-Mavrotheris ~ Cyprus College, Cyprus Oded Meyer ~ Carnegie Mellon University, United States Jackie Miller ~ Ohio State University, United States Carlos Monteiro ~ Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Jerry Moreno ~ John Carroll University, United States Carolyn B. Morgan ~ Hampton University, United States Patrick Murphy ~ University College Dublin, Ireland James Nicholson ~ University of Durham, United Kingdom Irena Ograjen_ek ~ University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Mario Miguel Ojeda ~ Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, México Chris Olsen ~ Cedar Rapids (IA) Community Schools, United States David Ospina ~ National University of Colombia, Columbia Roxy Peck ~ California Polytechnic State University, United States Peter Petocz ~ Macquarie University, Australia Maxine Pfannkuch ~ University of Auckland, New Zealand Ludovico Piccinato ~ Università di Roma, Italy Robyn Pierce ~ University of Ballarat, Australia Anne Porter ~ University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia Dave Pratt ~ University of Warwick, United Kingdom Norean Radke Sharpe ~ Babson College, United States Chris Reading ~ University of New England, Australia Gina Reed ~ Gainesville State College, United States Jean Claude Régnier ~ Université de Lyon, France Anna Reid ~ Macquarie University, Australia Paul Roback ~ St. Olaf College, United States Jorge Luis Romeu ~ Syracuse University, United States Deborah Rumsey ~ Ohio State University, United States Luis Saldanha ~ Portland State University, United States Ernesto Sánchez ~ Cinvestav, México Andrew Schaffner ~ California Polytechnic State University, United States Mike Shaughnessy ~ Portland State University, United States Pamela Shaw ~ Macquarie University, Australia Tom Short ~ Indiana University of Pennsylvania, United States Julio M. Singer ~ Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Robert Smidt ~ California Polytechnic State University, United States Heather Smith ~ California Polytechnic State University, United States Eric Sowey ~ University of New South Wales, Australia Trevor Spedding ~ University of Wollongong, Australia Dalene Stangl ~ Duke University, United States Douglas Stirling ~ Massey University, New Zealand Engin Sungur ~ University of Minnesota Morris, United States Josh Tabor ~ Glen A. Wilson High School, United States Liliana Tauber ~ Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina Dirk Templaar ~ University of Maastricht, The Netherlands Ene-Margit Tiit ~ University of Tartu, Estonia Jessica Utts ~ University of California – Davis, United States Angustias Vallecillos ~ Universidad de Granada, Spain Noël Veraverbeke ~ Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium John Walker ~ California Polytechnic State University, United States Ron Wasserstein ~ Washburn University, United States Larry Weldon ~ Simon Fraser University, Canada
ICOTS-7 Proceedings: Referees
Nathan Wetzel ~ University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, United States Joe Wisenbaker ~ University of Georgia, United States Jeff Witmer ~ Oberlin College, United States Roger Woodard ~ North Carolina State University, United States Gabriel Yáñez ~ Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia
